Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav, Swinburne University of Technology
An artist’s concept of a binary black hole merger, in which the black holes have misaligned spins with respect to one another. Such details can be revealed by gravitational waves emitted during a merger, and complicate the theoretical picture of how these types of binaries form.
Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav, Swinburne University of Technology
A boom in gravitational waves leaves scientists with more questions than answers
A new data release more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave candidate events—and reveals unexpected complexities of merging black holes
Jack Heinzel, Salvatore Vitale, LIGO
